FLR Rallycross 9/6/08
[ September 9th, 2008 ] By: Charles Smith Posted in » Ramblings
Mark and I finally got to go to a rallycross this weekend(oh so many have been cancelled before). We brought our good friend Dan, who has written a guest post for us before which you should check out, to help “crew” for us. Mostly he was there to “look good” and man some cameras and talk smack about us while filming our runs. Thanks Dan…
As for how we did? We did okay considering it was our first. It was a good learning experience and there are some upsides from it. I found out I can be fast sometimes. I set a time 3.6 seconds slower than the fastest run of the day. So I would have benefitted from an Autocross style scoring where fastest time counts rather than the total time. I also hit quite a few cones: 5. I tied for most cones hit during the day. Each cone hit resulted in 6 seconds of penalty time so those cones were really hurting me. The only reason I hit a couple of them is because I was pushing too hard and spun 3 times during the day (even more time lost not counting penalty time).This is Rally though and I have to calm down a bit to win. Although, I ended up with 1st in class (only one in class) and 7th overall.
Mark did really well for driving a Volvo that couldn’t put its power to the ground. He was, you guessed it, first in class but 8th overall. I nudged him out even with my 30 seconds in penalty time. We did find out that he is far less aggressive of a driver when compared to me. He hit 0 cones the whole day. He was one of two drivers to not hit cones the entire day.
Here are some pics from the day to get you started:
Anyway, I have started to upload photos to our new Flickr Account. I still have more to get from Dan, and there is plenty of video kickin around on two tapes and some point and shoot cameras. I don’t really like uploading raw video, but I think I’ll upload the incar stuff all as separate videos for you guys. Where? To our YouTube account duhhhhhhh.
